{"product_id":"unstill-life-gabrielle-selz-9780393239171","title":"Unstill Life: A Daughter's Memoir of Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction","description":"In 1958, soon after Gabrielle Selz was born, she, her parents and her sister moved to New York, where her father, Peter Selz, would begin his job as the chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. What followed was a whirlwind childhood spent among art and artists in the heyday of Abstract Expressionism. Gabrielle grew up in a home full of the most celebrated artists of the day: Rothko, de Kooning, Tinguely, Giacometti, and Christo, among others. \u003cp\u003ePoignant and candid, \u003cem\u003eUnstill Life\u003c\/em\u003e is a daughter's memoir of the art world and a larger-than-life father known to the world as Mr. Modern Art. Selz offers a unique window into the glamour and destruction of the times: the gallery openings, wild parties and affairs that defined one of the most celebrated periods in American art history. Like the art he loved, Selz's father was vibrant and freewheeling, but his enthusiasm for both women and art took its toll on family life. When her father left MoMA and his family to direct his own museum in California, marrying four more times, Selz's mother, the writer Thalia Selz, moved with her children into the utopian artist community Westbeth. Her parents continued a tumultuous affair that would last forty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWeaving her family narrative into the larger story of twentieth-century art and culture, Selz paints an unforgettable portrait of a charismatic man, the generation of modern artists he championed and the daughter whose life he shaped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gabrielle Selz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0393239179\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393239171\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/14\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2014 pg. 72","brand":"Gabrielle Selz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43919655076095,"sku":"9780393239171","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0ac95196-0dc9-456c-a442-3fe5fef30d90.jpg?v=1680810582","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unstill-life-gabrielle-selz-9780393239171","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}